** Description changed: NB: my real point is not to fix the death cause. It's resurrection, in the second paragraph. I (too vaguely) describe the events in case it could help. I installed ubuntu-desktop on top of Xubuntu. I started a few Gnome logins in test users' sessions, left active. Then, I tested Gnome login on my main account. Being satisfied, I logged this one out and back in to xfce. If I recall well, the xfce's blue desktop showed, maybe its icons too. Then suddenly, the desktop was painted in plain brown, no icons. (I had changed my Gnome wallpaper to plain brown but my post-Gnome-login is brown too) The panels were the xfce's ones. I right clicked some desktop context menu item to be just told that a gnome component was not active; then the right click became inactive. My point is that xfce kept logging in without desktop (sole brown wallpaper). A web search pointed me to executing Alt-F2 xfdesktop. This solved the problem forever (now logging correctly). My point is that a common user is unable to find and do that. - The desktop should obviously always start. + The desktop should obviously always start during login. If there's any reason it shouldn't, I think it would be at the expense of a, maybe timed, message asking the common user if the desktop has to be restored. Exactly the same problem occurred with permanently disappeared panels. A web search pointed me to an Alt-F2 xfce4-panel solution. Hoping this will help. André.
-- xfdesktop or panels keep not starting, resurrection needed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/174995 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
